Bonuccelli in the World - Family Genealogy Project -
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Published on: 1/1/2005
Last Visited: 12/2/2008
ARCHIVIST LUCA SANTINI AND THE ANCIENT BOOKS OF THE CAMAIORE LIBRARY
My second day in Camaiore, I had the great pleasure of meeting archivist Luca Santini of the Camaiore Cultural Office.
He is the recognized expert on the surnames and history of Camaiore and the surrounding area.
Within minutes, he whisked me into the locked room where they store the treasure-trove of ancient books from the town's history.
Many are Estimi (Estimates), which essentially chronicle possessions of the citizens and the tax due on said items.
With these Estimi, early Bonuccelli ancestors can be traced and identified according to what part of town they lived.
Likewise, the early church generally documented births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, etc., and Luca can read the Latin/old Italian entries in these journals.
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Luca Santini and friends of the Archaeological Group of Camaiore are currently engaging in efforts to clean and catalogue the ruins for future preservation.
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Many many thanks to Luca Santini of the Camaiore Cultural Office for being so incredibly accommodating, for the majority of the info and research on this page and for giving me so many books for free.
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